Thus the quest of crowning the “best” popular home espresso machine would be an exercise in celebrating adequacy. Not only that, the logistics of acquiring each home machine, tuning it, etc. , would be a real headache where I’m not interested in going down that rabbit hole.

To do an exhaustive survey and comparison between home espresso machines is largely irrelevant to our mission and would be a theme for a different web site entirely. And personally, it’s a subject that would bore us to tears.

Not to mention our key finding from this experiment: that an exhaustive test of the most popular home espresso machines today would essentially condemn us to an endless series of McDonald’s-quality espresso shots.

To “TheShot” (I think you’re name is Greg?): Thanks for your review. I can’t in all honesty say I completely agree with you (because a) I’m not as invested in the quality of espresso as you clearly are and, both similarly and apologetically, I b) can’t quite differentiate the difference myself). I do, however, find your devotion to excellence both refreshing and done so with quite class.

To almost everyone else (there were a few exceptions): Get a grip. It has all become quite asinine at this point. You’re practically badgering the poor guy (not that he seems even remotely phased by it). Did he run over your dog? Because I swear I thought he was giving a review of an espresso machine? That’s all. Keep breathing. He’s not proposing a legislative ban on your precious little Nespresso pods. You disagree with him? -Use logic, make your argument like a grown up, debate and/or move on. Don’t attack him.

Thanks again for the review. I learned a few things I didn’t know.

Cheers and happy drinking.